I've never seen anyone else do this with a novel before, and neither has anyone I asked. Have you seen anyone do something like I did with the chapter headings for Shadowed, to add depth, flavor, and unity to a story?
One: When We Take a Step
Two: Our Shadow Walks Behind
Three: On the Day We're Born
Four: A Darkness Assigned
Five: Our Eyes Turn from Darkness
Six: We Try to Walk Away
Seven: Its Presence Always With Us
Eight: Absence Must Stay
Nine: As Time Strides On
Ten: Our Steps May Slow
Eleven: Shadowed Closer
Twelve: We Onward Go
Thirteen: Wish We To Be Followed
Fourteen: Yearn To Tread Alone
Fifteen: Feelings Frustrated
Sixteen: Reaping, We've Sown
Seventeen: A Journey Shadowed
Eighteen: Can Leave Us in Dread
Nineteen: Leading Our Lives
Twenty: But Secretly Led
Twenty-One: We Walk—Run—We're Fleeing
Twenty-Two: We Try, It Matters Not
Twenty-Three: The Light We're Never Seeing
Twenty-Four: The Fate We've Never Sought
(If you're asking, the answer is yes, each chapter title does have something to do with that chapter's contents, and is reflected within it, too.)
P.S. As always, all my fiction is free. See my entry Ebooks Update for a full list.
heh -- No, I've seen some clever chapter headings, but this set is above and beyond. Hope there's a table of contents . . .
ReplyDeleteRick
That *is* the table of contents.
ReplyDeleteIf you ever read it, I think the headings will serve to let you find the chapter you're interested in. I hope so. I admit I try to avoid spoilers in the headings. Maybe I've gone too far...